Lenovo Day 7

Day 7 began rather slowly, especially for Felipe.  While we initially didn’t have anything to do, we were eventually given emails that people would receive if there was a security threat detected on their network.  We looked through each one, and then helped Brett write a brief synopsis of the email and any errors that we found.  Jack also played around with an eye tracker that Greyson had given us, which was quite interesting to watch, as it allows everyone around you to see where you are looking on the screen.

I mean you can’t really see it here, but there is a little grey bubble indicated where Jack is looking.

After finishing that short project, the representative from Medion came in.  He is from Germany, and actually arrived a few days ago, but he brought us interns some German candy, theoretically from Germany.

Caramel covered in dark chocolate (Left) and a mix of lots of different Haribo products (Right).

After sitting around for a bit, Felipe finally decided to show up to work, and we began some real work.  Greyson came over and talked to us about what would probably be “the most important thing we did during this internship”.  While he did also say that that might not be totally true, it was going to be important.  Our task was to look at the current version of Lenovo Vantage Gaming, which is on all of the Lenovo Legion computers.  The little battery icon in the bottom right of the screen is a actually a Vantage toolbar, on both versions of the app.  However, Greyson (and perhaps others) wanted to know if we thought that it should be different on the gaming version, and if so, what should be different.  So, we looked at the current version, and started brainstorming in a group.

Now, everyone knows that you can’t brainstorm effectively if you haven’t eaten, so a little while after starting our research, we headed out to get some pizza.  The pizza place was actually right next to the Tropical Smothie Cafe that we got lunch at yesterday.  The slices that we got were huge, and I mean huge, while the drinks, well, they were just normal sized.

Here we are, just eating some pizza.

After returning from lunch, our brainstorming and creating mock ups of the toolbar continued.  We finished the presentation by about 15:00, and headed down to the far corner of the second floor to present.  We ended up presenting to Greyson and a new college intern named Brad.  I would say the presentation went quite well, and Greyson liked the work we had done.  After that, our penultimate 7th day was over.

Leaving the meeting room after the meeting.

Lenovo Day 2

Our second day at Lenovo started off a bit differently than our first day.  Mainly, we arrived at 9:00 am instead of 8:30.  This was quite nice, since I at least could finally wake up late-ish.  Upon arrival, Felipe, Jack, and I sat around in the front lobby for a few minutes waiting for Greyson to come down and get us.  Apparently Brett had arrived a while earlier and was already up on the third floor.

After we were brought up to the third floor, our main job of the day began.  Playing video games. I mean, hardware testing.  We were given a Lenovo Legion gaming laptop to unbox, take screenshots of, and test the limits of.  We also used a Lenovo Windows MR headset to test out the VR capabilities of the laptop.  We spent pretty much the whole morning testing the laptop along with another, different gaming laptop.

 

 

We went out to a somewhat sketchy Jersey Mike’s for lunch, and then came back and continued testing.

In the last 1 hour of our day at Lenovo, we met with Ray Chen, a person who works at UX at Lenovo.  He told us about all the different ways that Lenovo and other companies can get information about what people think about their products as well as how they are actually used.  It was quite an interesting presentation, and it was a good way to end our second day at Lenovo after spending the rest of the time at our desks.

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